WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:18.000 Music 00:18.000 --> 00:25.080 We are going back 150 million years and we are looking at a fossil from a rare coral reef from the bottom of the ocean. 00:26.080 --> 00:29.680 This is a fossil that was discovered in what is today the country of Germany. 00:30.000 --> 00:35.460 I am now holding the petrified form of a coral that was living 150 million years in the past. 00:36.360 --> 00:39.200 Let me turn it around a bit so all its details can be seen. 00:39.960 --> 00:45.620 Corals form in a very small part of the ocean's surface, but because of the biological activities they possess, 00:46.060 --> 00:48.400 they live alongside other living groups in the ocean. 00:50.020 --> 00:51.600 Populations form together with them. 00:51.600 --> 00:58.180 Because of these characteristics and the way that corals color the seabed, 00:58.180 --> 01:01.980 they are today the subject of much research and many documentaries 01:01.980 --> 01:07.340 because Allah creates them so brightly colored, mashallah, and in highly attractive shapes. 01:08.860 --> 01:12.940 Coral reefs are well known, but that is not a feature of this coral itself. 01:12.940 --> 01:18.400 A rock mass forms as the result of minerals accumulating on its surface 01:18.400 --> 01:20.180 and its own biological activity. 01:20.180 --> 01:25.680 It then combines with other corals, and since they all possess the same features, 01:25.680 --> 01:27.640 the result is a mass of coral. 01:30.940 --> 01:33.980 That is why these masses of corals are known as reefs. 01:33.980 --> 01:41.960 This fossil, which possesses the same feature, is 150 million years old. 01:42.360 --> 01:44.260 We can compare it with present-day corals. 01:44.780 --> 01:48.760 It is identical, even in the way it carries minerals and looks like a rock. 01:51.000 --> 01:56.340 We know that oxygen is found in dissolved form at the sea bottom in order to give rise to life forms, 01:56.460 --> 01:59.320 and that the same thing applied millions of years ago. 01:59.320 --> 02:04.820 The fact that a life form existing today also existed 150 million years ago 02:04.820 --> 02:08.500 shows us that the life form has never changed, has never evolved, 02:08.800 --> 02:11.140 and has never turned into any other living species. 02:12.260 --> 02:14.740 No other species has ever turned into this coral, 02:15.100 --> 02:18.140 nor has this coral become, let us say, a jellyfish, 02:18.500 --> 02:22.260 because this life form was living in the same way, in the same environment, 02:22.720 --> 02:25.060 millions and hundreds of millions of years ago, 02:25.060 --> 02:29.940 which means it had the same biological activity as its descendants do today. 02:30.360 --> 02:35.080 Indeed, present-day research and scientific reports show that when a gene from an organism 02:35.080 --> 02:40.920 that existed 500 or 600 million years ago is transplanted into that life form still living today, 02:41.040 --> 02:43.700 the same protein is again synthesized. 02:44.080 --> 02:48.140 In other words, in molecular terms, and I am setting this out for the sake of clarity, 02:48.720 --> 02:52.060 we can see that the factory, as it were, has never changed. 02:52.060 --> 02:56.080 When we give it the same blueprint, the same living body, in other words, 02:56.200 --> 03:01.760 it will manufacture the same product as the factory made 500 to 600 million years ago. 03:02.020 --> 03:06.440 To come back to this fossil, it is identical to its counterparts living today in the same habitat. 03:06.800 --> 03:10.840 I have just described yet another proof of Allah's immaculate creation.